[ecrea] Call for Contributions: Handbook on Digital and Public Humanities

Tue Dec 04 09:12:07 GMT 2018

*Call for contributions for a Handbook on Digital and Public Humanities*

This collection seeks to bring together some of the most recent
international scholarship and developments in the interdisciplinary
fields of digital and public humanities. Alongside a critical
exploration of the production, distribution and scholarship of culture
in relation to digital media and technologies, the collection will
examine the possibilities and challenges of publicly engaged scholarship
in the digital humanities and beyond. Working with a broad definition of
‘public humanities’, we wish to interrogate the multifaceted interface
of arts and humanities scholarship and engagement with wider ‘publics’
beyond academia, from literary and cultural heritage to creative arts
and performance. The volume will explore key concepts, theories,
practices and debates within both the digital and public humanities
while also assessing how these two areas are increasingly intertwined.

Chapter contributions may either deal with theoretical examinations of
key concepts significant to the digital and/or public humanities, or
offer examples of specific areas of digital and/or public humanities
practice that are embedded in critical-theoretical reflections on the
socio-political stakes and theoretical-methodological implications of
such practice.

Possible topics and areas for contribution include (but are not limited to):
* Theorizations of ‘publics’, communities and audiences
* Public intellectuals and the humanities in the public sphere
* The public face of digital humanities
* Creative arts, literacy and heritage in the community
* Literary and other cultural festivals
* Civic agency, arts and activism
* Cultures of commemoration and collective memory
* Exhibition design and institutional knowledge production
* Literary tourism
* Dark tourism
* Closed institutional settings (hospitals and prisons)
* Methodologies for public humanities
* Media and interface
* Identity and equality in public and/or digital humanities practice
* Ecology, climate and the digital
* Other topics that specifically engage with the intersection between
the public and digital humanities
_Timelines_

We have had an initial conversation with Palgrave who are interested in
this proposal for their Palgrave Handbooks series, which typically
features research-led essays at the forefront of developments in the
field. No contract has been signed, and the publisher is requiring
chapter abstracts with our full proposal before taking this any further.

Chapter abstracts of 300 words are due by *January 25^th 2019*. The
abstract should outline the approach and content, as well as research
questions and tentative arguments/conclusions. We will inform you by the
end of April 2019 if we are able to include your contribution with our
volume proposal.

If contracted, final chapters of 7000-8000 words will be due sometime in
2020.

Any queries before the deadline should be sent to both Tara Thomson
((t.thomson2 /at/ napier.ac.uk) <mailto:(t.thomson2 /at/ napier.ac.uk)>) and Anne
Schwan ((a.schwan /at/ napier.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.schwan /at/ napier.ac.uk)>).

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